Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-26
PACIFIC COAST.
SHOCKING ATROCITIES BY MEX
ICAN BANDITS.
Fatal Leap From Train - The
Placer Exhibit at Los Ange-
les-Accidents-E
lsrzclA1 DIarArcHrs TO THE aEoonD-vs1oN.l
BoUNTEoUs BUTTE.
The Oroville Fair to be Prolonged-A
Tribute to Butte's Resources.

The Oroville Fair to be Prolonged-A
Tribute to Butte's Resources.
ORovILLE, December 25th-The Execu-
tive Committee OF the Butte County Citrus
Fair has decided TO continue the exhibit
until next Wednesday evening, and TO run
an excursion from San Francisco on that
day. The unparalleled success of the ex-
hibit justified this action. The exhibit will
probably then be transferred to either Los
Angeles or Chicago. The following testi
monial from visitors is regarded as suffi-
cient guarantee of the merits of the dis
play:
ORovILLE December %, 1857.
To the Executive Committee Of The Butte County
CttruS fdtT-GENTLEMEN: We, the delegates OF
the Oregon railroad excursion take pleasure in
bearing testimony to the excellence of the dis
play of citrus and other semi-tropicel fruits the
products exclusively of Butte county, now be-
ing made in the canvas pavilion of the first cit
rus fair of Butte county. The great quantity
and general good quality OF the fruit is re-
markable feature of the exhibition. The vari-
cites of oranges include seedlings Washington
navels, Mediterranean sweets, Malta bloods, st.
Michaels, and other fine varieties, and are of
unusual excellence and high commercial value.
The display of lemons is large, and OF the finest
quality. The exhibit of Sicily lemons. the most
delicate and sensitive 10 frosts of all semi-tropi
cal growths, is especially noticeable. The dis
play of figs, raisins, pomegranates, persimmons
and other semi-tropical products is remarkable
for quantity and good quality.
rounding Oroville and have found the trees
laden with the ripe and golden fruit, and the
grOWths, without exception, healthy, luXuriant
and entirely free from disease or tree pests.
Among these citrus growths we saw many trees,
both oranges and lemons, a quarter of a century
old, which have had no protection, and which
have in all that time suffered no injury from
frostS. The new citrus plantations at Therma-
Ito and other places-show very vigorous
growth and give great promise of future pro-
ducton and profit. The wide area surrounding
Oroy ille ana the foothills, with low altitude
above tide level. in a comparatively froStless
belt now available for citrus cultivation with
the great abundance of water for irrigation,
points to wonderful production in the near
future. The absence of devastating winds, cold
storms, fogs, frosts cold ocean-air currents, and
the early maturity of fruit are favoring condi-
tions that will speedily produce such desirable
results.
We desire especially TO be witness to the en-
eTgy and enterprise of the people of Butte
county, who are developing these great re-
sources and advantages for citrus production
and advertising them to the world by such Won
derful public exhibition as we have had the
pleasure of seeing here in Oroville, and we
commend their action in this respect as an eX-
ample to the people of other sections of North
ern and Central California.
j. NJ. Davies, Secretary California State Board
of Trade; w. p. Bartlett, T.. B. Smith, Thomas
Flint, Jr., A. 2. Crane. +. L. Barrett and K. g.
Sheath, eX-President Chamber of Commerce,
San Francisco; A. 7. Hatch, President State
Board OF Trade; c. Parson, II. Phelps of Thos.
II. Selby Il Co., San Francisco; c. S. King
Henry Cornell, William Harney, E. B. Willis
and A. Gordon, fruit-growers, of San Mateo
county; n. W Spau.diDg, Pacific Saw Manu-
featuring Company, San Francisco; William L.
Hamilton and Thomas J. Haynes, Secretary of
Chamber of Commerce, san Francisco, and
George T. Myers and John f. Swift, San Fran
cisco.